Canadian Author, Joanne Shaw, former antipoverty activist and lobbiest, has proposed a solution to homelessness to Canadian Prime Minister and other people in office. She is still waiting to hear back from them or follow up. The solution is her original ideas. It would allow any Canadian, Resident of Canada or Visitor to Canada, if they found themselves without enough food, to simply go to a restaurant, by signing a legal affidafit at the restaurant, and if they found themselves without a house or apartment, they could check into any hotel or motel in Canada. It would operate in conjunction with laws that already exist, rather than charities or communities, and a lawyer would very easily be able to translate what she drafted into law.
Business establishements would go on their business as usual, and if they lost the $10 or $25 or whatever the cost of a meal was, due to a customer not being able to afford it due to homelessness or some similar reason, then the governemtn would have insured the cost of that meal, and the government would compensate the restaurants, hotels and motels. Once a month the businesses would submit their paperwork right along with their GST and PST tax forms.
This solution is brand new. It is very well thought out. Ms. Shaw has published extensively on antipoverty law, has helped pass laws governing income assistance in Canada and has helped draft actual legilsation. The 41 year old author and singer has been determined and devoted to end poverty since a child. She has received recognition for her writing several times now by Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize authors. Her goal has always been zero poverty for the world. This solution runs right across Canada. It is a final solution to homelessness. The average salary in Canada is about $3,000 per month. One dollar from each would give every single person $400, enough to pay for a hotel and buy a few things. $10 would give each homeless person $4,000, enough to move or solve pretty much whatever problem they have. Currently at least $300 to $600 per person is right now spent and lost on dead end solutions toward poverty, expenses of losses, and new buildings which house only for example 11 or 22 or 98 people out of 20,000 needing them, and where they have to live in one particular centre, with each other, not able to get married or move closer to their reletives or nearer to the mountains. It would save 3.5 million lives and overnight. Canada could be the first country without homelessness if the governement choses or adheres to this. Zero homelessness.
